An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
MATSUO BASHOWhen composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
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Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
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Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
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